. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 250 NOCTTTID^. Genus PLAGIOMIMICUS. Tjpe. Plagiomimicus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 182 (1873). pitycliroma. Proboscis fully developed ; prJpi porrect. extending to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd short; frons with lai-ge round corneous prominence with raised edges and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenna of male laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed with rough scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest, the patagia som
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 250 NOCTTTID^. Genus PLAGIOMIMICUS. Tjpe. Plagiomimicus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 182 (1873). pitycliroma. Proboscis fully developed ; prJpi porrect. extending to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd short; frons with lai-ge round corneous prominence with raised edges and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenna of male laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed with rough scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest, the patagia somewhat curled upwards at extremities ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibije very short and broad with hirge curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced, the termen obliquely curved and rot crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with triangular black-brown patch on costa before apex. a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform filled in with black-brown pitychroma. b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not filled in with black-brown. «'. Fore wing with black-brown patch in cell between the orbicular and which are obsolete triplagiata. ii. Fore wing without black-brown patch in cell between orbicular and reniform which are defined by laverna. B. Fore wing without triangular black-brown patch on costa before apex. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards at vein 6 to near subterminal line dolU. b. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved from below costa to vein 4 expalUda. 4631. Plagiomimicus pitychroma. Flagiomimicus pifychromus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 1
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